Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deplore the possibility of putting the Government into this field, either as a party in negotiations and certainly in establishing laws to fix the levels of profits and of wages and prices [but] I would again insist that the whole 175 million of us ought to make clear that we are concerned about this matter, and this is not something where we are standing aside and seeing ourselves hurt...
...stinkpotters. some sailors claim, have demeaned all that is beautiful about life on the sea. They ignore the traditional rules of courtesy (always ask permission to come aboard, never wear leather soles on a deck, never touch polished brass), insist on such levity as cocktail flags-or worse, flags that show a ball and chain (wife aboard), or a battle ax (mother-in-law aboard). They will foul the fine, salty lines of nautical language with mere jibberish, cool their beer with CO fire extinguishers, are blissfully ignorant of the well-founded Rules of the Road...
...therefore has stiffened its back to any wage hike that would force one. Washington gossiped that Dave McDonald has already been told privately just what he can get at the bargaining table: a package wage hike in the area of 8?-10? an hour. Some steel officials, though they insist publicly they would have to pass any wage boosts along in prices, privately admit that they could give the union a modest package without a price hike...
...sometime salesman named Joseph Dyson-worked out of London, Ont. To milk the contests, they set up a nonexistent newspaper, rented a post-office box for a nonexistent bank. Then they solicited two of the several U.S. syndicates that peddle prize contests to newspapers and that insist on sending solutions, as a precaution, to banks (or some other unimpeachable agency). In due time the phony newspaper began receiving the puzzles-and the phony bank began getting the solutions...
...that John Foster Dulles seemed to modify in a press conference when he said that there were other ways of arriving at reunification. Macmillan view: since Khrushchev will never agree to "immediate free elections," there is no sense in talking about them in connection with Berlin, as the U.S. insists. British spokesmen last week said that Macmillan had persuaded West Germany's Konrad Adenauer that reunification should be dropped down on the list of Western priorities. Tentative outcome of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks: the U.S. may not insist on "immediate free elections," even while requiring some sort...